Photos from the Kennelly Archive from this time show heaps of angel sharks piled up on the pier at Fenit along with other now-endangered sharks and rays. As a child, O’Sullivan remembers summers hauling in nets full of fish, but angel sharks were not targeted by fishermen. Tralee Bay is also home to the last remaining commercial native oyster fishery in Ireland. In 2024, two angel sharks were tagged with sophisticated tracking devices in Tralee Bay in what they described as a “a ground-breaking development for marine conservation”. It follows hopeful new findings of young and pregnant female angel sharks in recent years, including unprecedented film footage of the fish in Tralee Bay.

Source: The Irish Times December 18, 2025 22:31 UTC